Example sentences of "to speak about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1853 Mrs Reid gave hospitality to Harriet Beecher Stowe , who had come to England to speak about slavery at private gatherings of women , and in 1860 she shared her home with Sarah Redmond , the first black woman to undertake a public lecture tour in Britain on the slavery question , who later studied at Bedford College . |
| 2 | Well if I mind right , I think my mother used to speak about man , , that had this fish curing station over at the hens |
| 3 | These terms are carefully coded and they are significant because they enable people to speak about race without mentioning the word . |
| 4 | In the debates over proposed changes to the criminal law , politicians continued to argue that to speak about sex was to corrupt . |
| 5 | But for the majority it was purity which provided the language both to challenge men 's immorality and to stake out their own claim to speak about sex . |
| 6 | Women were empowered to speak about sex , challenging the authority of the experts and drawing attention to their gendered power relations . |
| 7 | The Opposition are always quick to speak about unemployment . |